so what do you really wanna do in a "real world"? it seems that you are not clear what you are interested in; the only reason I am doing a PhD is that I can imagine being a research guy and teaching. what do you "fancy" yourself as .. just close your eyes and imagine..

pay money back?. that must be joking. it is research, how can you be sure it will achieve something expected?

awful supervisor!
anybody knows more about the system, please help..

are your supervisor with you to the conference? if not, you can relax more; nobody pays much attention to the conference presentation if it is a nice location to hang out.., a bit kidding..

it is not right that he doesnot care.. that's the responsibility of a supervisor. do you have some colleagues that you can work together with?

could you be more specific, why don't you supervisor know anything about your subject? usually, the university should assign a supervisor with relevant expertise.

how are you feeling now? hope it was temporal depression..

hmm, although I have not noticed that, if there are such replies, they are not polite..

feeling better? great! a good Phd needs to go through a lot of tortures.

I think guys handle this differently than girls.. being straightforward is quite "mannly". good luck anyway!

it should be easy to create excuses.. i usually bond with people in sports, museum trip, or just a newly-opened restaurant.

this threads get really long.. how is it going on with the "crush" now?

you can always try a position in any other universities.. so as long as your work is good and not that rare in the outside world, it is no problem finding a position out there.

well, reasonably, it is not a good idea to date any one in your working place.. but since you spend most of your time with them, like me who spend almost 80% of my time in my office, it is really a torture if you find someone attractive but cannot do anything about it.. luckily, most of my colleagues are not that attractive to me..

can you find a fully funded phd position? I think there are some countries providing higher scholarship/salary for PhDs..